Reading List
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UPDATED 1/17/07
Here are the things currently in my fun-reading queue, in somewhat priority order:
Here are the things currently in my fun-reading queue, in somewhat priority order:
George R.R. Martin - A Feast for CrowsGregory Maguire - WickedGregory Maguire - Son of a WitchNeil Gaiman - Anansi Boys- Roger Highfield - The Science of Harry Potter
Sarah Dunant - The Birth of VenusJoyce Carol Oates - The Falls- Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat
George Crile - Charlie Wilson's War- Maria Dahvana Headley - The Year of Yes
- Esera Tuaolo - Alone in the Trenches
- Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
- Ann Leary - An Innocent, A Broad
Gregory Maguire - Mirror, Mirror- Jhumpa Lahiri - The Interpreter of Maladies. Pulitzer-prizewinning book of short stories, one of which I heard featured on This American Life (episode 221: Fake I.D.)
- Geraldine Brooks - March
Andy Hertzfeld - Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made- Neil Gaiman - American Gods
- Lynn Flewelling - The Oracle's Queen (Tamir Trilogy, Book 3)
- Gregory Maguire - Lost
Tom Standage - The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line PioneersPhilippa Gregory The Other Boleyn GirlChris Bohjalian - Trans-Sister Radio- Rose Wilder Lane - Ghost in the Little House (rec from beba)
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:23 pm (UTC)His conversations with experts are similar to this:
Friedman: Hey! Guess what? I think X=X!
Expert: ...
Friedman: What do you think? Aren't I smart?
Expert: E... =... X.
Friedman: Yeah!
Expert: Yeeesssss. duh.</>
Friedman: I am so smart! Look! The expert agrees!
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Date: 2006-03-02 09:24 pm (UTC)